One Year On by James Curran

We recently celebrated our first year as Absolute Radio which recalled for those in the Programming Team frantic, but energised, evenings and weekends in Sep 2008 spent readying the station for its name change and a redefined music position.

One year on as part of our continuing review of the music we play we have taken on board some of the things listeners have been telling us . A few months back we felt the station might be sounding a tad too old so we slightly cut back on some of the 60s and 70s classics we were playing and upped the amount of 90s as a consequence. Now listeners are telling us that they are loving the 90s but they are missing some of the older classics we seemed to play more as part of the early Absolute Radio.

Always a station to keep an open mind, and ear, we are responding to that by reintroducing some of those classic 60s and 70s tracks you love . Another thing you have been telling us is that you prefer your 70s classic rock to your 70s pop so one will be upped at the expense of the other. But don’t worry we won’t be trying to steal the mantle of our sister station Absolute Classic Rock , we will still be playing lots of the 80s, 90s and noughties you love too!

James

Comments (2)

  1. Marty from new yawk @ October 9, 2009 at 12:15 pm | Permalink

    James, I honestly don’t think a lot of listeners appreciate just how difficult it is to produce a play list let alone cater to the whims and caprices (I’m not sure what a caprice is, it just sounds nice) of ALL the listeners. To this end, let me recommend that the listeners avail themselves of the open play list meetings to more readily understand the process.

  2. Alistair MacPherson @ October 10, 2009 at 1:07 pm | Permalink

    Hi James,

    Good to hear you are still listening to the listeners (hang on, if the listeners are listening what are you listening too?). By more luck than judgement I happened to be driving Sunday evenings while Leona has been on with her Classic Rock show. I cannot explain the emotions when you hear a track that you haven’t heard for many, many years. It really stirs the memories.

    The only criticism I would voice for the normal weekly shows is not to play the SAME classics over and over but to dig out some pure gold that haven’t been heard for some time.

    Thanks, from another classic…

    Zippy :-)

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